Board meeting 16 May 2025 in Brussels. After four online board meetings, the elected directors and representatives of the Belgian, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, French, Irish, Greek, Polish and German sections met in person at the Belgian Court of Cassation for the second GEMME Board of Directors meeting of 2025. The discussions were both dense and…
As part of the public policy in favour of amicable settlement conducted by the Ministry of Justice, three senior magistrates, three lawyers and three renowned academics, joined by a notary, a court commissioner and a former consular judge, have been given the task by the Minister of Justice of visiting judicial jurisdictions to publicise the…
EUIPO creates a Mediation Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution in Intellectual Property matters The new Mediation Centre of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) is the first of its kind and is based at EUIPO’s premises in Alicante (Spain). It will offer its services free of charge in different languages. The Mediation Centre’s services…
The draft law on the generalisation of out-of-court settlement chambers (CRA) has been adopted by the Belgian Parliament GEMME Belgium played a leading role in drafting the new law on the extension of chambers for out-of-court settlements (Chambres de Règlement à l’Amiable = CRA) to civil, commercial and social matters, which has just been adopted…
20 years since the first GEMME meeting This week marks the 20th anniversary of the first meeting of GEMME, which took place at the Cour de Cassation in Paris on 19 December 2003 (photo) and was attended by more than 60 magistrates from 7 European countries (Belgium (15), France (35), Germany (6), Holland (1), Italy…
Call for Papers of the 11th World Mediation Forum Conference (March, 2022). Deadline submission: 15 January The World Mediation Forum Conferences have been taking place all over the world since 1995 to promote interdisciplinarity, development, as well as knowledge and skills sharing related to mediation. “Current Conflicts of Humanity: New Challenges for Mediation” is the…